Another good example is The Songs of West Side Story, a compilation of 1990s style covers of songs from Leonard Bernstein's musical West Side Story released by RCA Victor and features prominent artists of the time such as Salt-n-Pepa, Michael McDonald, Chick Corea and even non-musical guests such as The Jerky Boys. Other examples include reggae, Cuban and ambient lounge compilations consisting solely of songs by The Beatles, such as the a cappella album Help! by the group Overboard.
and String Quartet series of instrumental artist tributes in the bluegrass and classical style, respectively. Albums consisting of cover songs performed in a different style of music from their original performers: these include Is It Rolling Bob?: A Reggae Tribute to Bob Dylan and Goth Oddity 2000: A Tribute to David Bowie, as well as the Pickin' On.The Persuasions, The Inmates, Les Fradkin, The Smithereens, Laibach and Overboard have each recorded tribute CDs entirely consisting of songs by The Beatles. Albums consisting of one artist performing only songs by another artist: for example, Great Zeppelin, a tribute album for Led Zeppelin performed solely by Great White, or Wicked Grin, a collection of Tom Waits songs performed by John P.Victoria Williams is also the subject of such a tribute CD, titled Sweet Relief: A Benefit for Victoria Williams. Albums which aid the artist whose work is being covered: for example, Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye: A Tribute to Roky Erickson, whose cult fame has not led to financial success, as well as the double CD Orphans of God, a tribute to Mark Heard, a singer/songwriter whose work has been praised by fellow artists such as Bruce Cockburn, Victoria Williams, Sam Phillips and T-Bone Burnett.Some tribute albums are created with a further conceptual twist other than a simple collection of covers. Of his song " Its Hard To Mend Late ", this was the revolution in the peak of this Album as thisĪlbum started touching heights after that saddest song of piano. He followed up with tributes to Thelonious Monk, Disney cartoons, Kurt Weill, Charles Mingus and Harold Arlen.Īfter the success of Tribute Album, the Pakistani boy Jahanzaib Saadet added the touch of piano The birth of the 'modern' tribute album is often credited to record producer Hal Willner with the Amarcord Nino Rota LP in 1981. There have been tributes or covers recorded since before the first albums became technically feasible Enrico Caruso's 1907 recordings of Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci are one early example. Its concept may be either various artists making a tribute to a single artist, a single artist making a tribute to various artists, or a single artist making a tribute to another single artist. A tribute album is a recorded collection of cover versions of songs or instrumental compositions.